Alexander Fortin

I'm a Software Engineer passionate about automation and all the things as Code

eMudhra's debacle made me think keeping an eye on the Certificate Transparency ledger for my domains isn't such a bad idea.

I now have a Cert Spotter daemon running as podman on my VPS, thanks to @sslmate.com

forge.l3x.in/alex/certspo...
certspotterforge.l3x.in
2026-10-22View on Bluesky
You may think this US administration had already done all the possible to lose any sort of credibility or respectability, daily news of embarassment keep coming though

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
‘You are a humanitarian also, sir’: the US feeds Putin with lies as Ukraine’s children take cover and die | Andrew Rothwww.theguardian.com
2026-10-22View on Bluesky
TIme for the yearly Go developers survey:

go.dev/blog/survey2...

I did my part 💪
Help set Go's priorities for next year - The Go Programming Languagego.dev
2026-10-22View on Bluesky

Stop complaining about enshittification. Use the alternatives
In the last past 10 years or so I've gradually tried to distance myself from various form or "enshittification", I talk here about some of the alternatives I have chosen and why I think they serve me better than the most popular ones.
2026-10-0912 min
Serverless vanity Go import server
I cooked my bespoke solution to avoid coupling my Go code with GitHub
2026-09-281 min
Cheap and easy throwaway VPN server
I travel a lot and I don't like censored internet, in this article I'm discussing the various workarounds I put in place to circumvent restrictions.
2026-09-226 min